WiFi interface - scanning ssid

[Paul B Mahol]

On 11/23/09, Samuel Martín Moro <faust64 at gmail.com> wrote:
> that may help:
>
> my uname:
> FreeBSD devel.axis.fr 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 14
> 15:26:50 CEST 2009     root at h2g2.axis.fr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
> in rc.conf:
> hostapd/dhcpd/ifconfig_rum0 are commented
>
> wlan_xauth is loaded
>
> ~# ifconfig rum0 down
> ~# ifconfig rum0 delete
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address
> ~# ifconfig rum0 destroy
> ifconfig: SIOCIFDESTROY: Invalid argument
> ~# ifconfig rum0
> rum0: flags=108802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:18:1a:0c:65:2f
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid 1921680452 channel 2 (2417 Mhz 11g)
>         authmode AUTO privacy OFF txpower 50 scanvalid 60 bgscan
>         bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7 roam:rate11g 5
>         protmode CTS dtimperiod 1
>
> before, my card was listed by pciconf (but isn't anymore), as noneX
> now, I can view it using usbdevs:
> [...]
> port 4 addr 2: high speed, power 300 mA, config 1, 802.11 bg WLAN(0x2573),
> Ralink(0x148f), rev 0.01
> [...]
>
> I used to test WIFI with two different chipset.
> I generated the first driver using ndisgen, and compiled back the kernel
> (adding some lines into headers) to deal with the second one.
> I don't remember which one I use here. But my problem might come from a bad
> driver. (but most likely: PEBKAC)
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help
>
>
> Samuel Martín Moro
> CamTrace
> {EPITECH.} tek4
>
> | "Nobody wants to say how this works.  |
> |  Maybe nobody knows ..."              |
> |                       Xorg.conf(5)    |
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Samuel Martín Moro
> <faust64 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm trying to list ssid neighborhood.
>> doing ifconfig rum0 scan or ifconfig rum0 list scan, there isn't any
>> returned row.
>>
>> it perfectly works a few days ago, when I was working on a script to
>> configure WIFI interfaces as client.
>> more recently, I tried to do a script to configure WIFI interfaces as
>> access points. since that, all my scan/list scan are empty.
>>
>> by the way, while testing, I wasn't able to reset interface configuration
>> (and maybe it's my list/scan) problem.
>> I tried with delete, ... It still keeps the old conf, when I'ld like to
>> drop it. How should I do ?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> Samuel Martín Moro
>> CamTrace
>> {EPITECH.} tek4
>>
>> | "Nobody wants to say how this works.  |
>> |  Maybe nobody knows ..."              |
>> |                       Xorg.conf(5)    |
>>

You need to bring interface up, before scanning.